Unique thread ID

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:41:47 -0300, Benjamin <musiccomposition at gmail.com>  
escribió:

> On Jan 18, 2:31 am, Christian Heimes <li... at cheimes.de> wrote:
>> Benjamin wrote:
>> > Is there a way to obtain a unique ID for the current thread? I have an
>> > object that I need to store local thread data in, and I don't want to
>> > use threading.local because each thread might have multiple instances
>> > of my object.
>>
>> threading.get_ident() but please use threading.local. Nobody is going to
>> stop you if you use a list or dict in threading.local.
> then, I have to figure out how to represent an instance of my object
> in threading.local. (The data also won't be garbage collect when my
> object is, will it?) I think the unique id is elegant in this case.

I think you didn't get how threading.local works yet. It's a lot easier  
than you imply. Just store your instances as attributes of a  
threading.local object. You may use a list or dictionary if you want  
multiple instances.
Read _threading_local.py, it contains a lot of examples.

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Gabriel Genellina